May 7, 2012
The Pokerstars blog reports that Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu, fresh off big money wins in Monaco, was defeated by relatively unknown online player rUaBot on Saturday in the inaugural clash of the Pokerstars’ Limit Hold’em Challenge. The Limit Hold’em Challenge ‘rules of engagement’ were that Negreanu and rUaBot would play 1,250 hands of heads-up, fixed-limit hold’em […]
May 7, 2012
On Sunday an otherwise quiet news scene lit up as rumours of a takeover bid on the troubled Cake Poker Network by Merge-powered operator Lock Poker emerged. The online gambling information site Gambling 911, which is known to have a close relationship with Lock Poker management, appeared to be the first to publish the news, […]
May 5, 2012
The recent municipal elections in Russia saw 27-year-old internet poker ace Max Katz elected to the municipal council chambers of Shchukino, a district in Moscow…and it was funded from his online poker winnings, reports the Telegraph newspaper, quoting the Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Katz stood as an independent, inspired by the public demonstrations demanding free and fair […]
May 5, 2012
The world’s biggest online poker operator, Pokerstars.com, is geared up for a busy weekend as it approaches its eighty billionth hand of poker, expected to be dealt Sunday May 6. The site is running its customary Milestone promos to pull the players in, offering cash bonuses to players who are dealt into any of the […]
May 5, 2012
Massachusetts Representative Daniel Winslow’s attempt to tack an online poker legalisation amendment on to a critical state budgetry bill before the state Legislature has failed. Winslow faced some opposition from lawmakers who did not wish to delay or bog down the bill with what they saw as irrelevant amendments. Bluff Magazine writer Chris Krafcik reported […]
May 4, 2012
The exciting prospect of major live poker tournaments on the Isle of Man has become a real possibility following the successful second reading of the Casino (Amendment) Bill 2012 at a session of the island government’s Legislative Council this week. Local newspaper IOM Today reports that Eddie Lowey MLC is driving the bill through as […]
May 4, 2012
It’s been on the cards since January this year, when Brit poker organiser Barry Denson used Twitter to warn that he would be mounting an attack on the world record for longest continuous poker playing session later this year. Denson acknowledged that it was a formidable challenge; in 2009, Paul Zimbler set the heads-up poker […]
May 2, 2012
Reports on Scoop.it suggest that Playtech has acquired a stake in Zeda Poker, a business-to-consumer social site powered by Viaden Gaming and probably part of the 20 percent interest that Playtech has bought in the software provider. The deals in Playtech’s Euro 95 million drive into the social gaming sector (see previous reports) are also […]
May 2, 2012
The PokerStars.com Euro 25,000 buy-in European Poker Tour Grand Final High Roller has been decided after an epic two-and-a-half-hour heads up in which the lead changed several times between participants Igor Kurganov and Daniel Negreanu, both of whom provided a master class in daring but disciplined poker. Despite Negreanu holding the advantage at the start […]
May 2, 2012
Poker Table Ratings (PTR) has released a player profile management feature in beta phase allowing players, under their poker screen name, to moderate comments made by others on their PTR profile along with avatar personalisation and biography capabilities. PTR intends expanding the current options, currently enabled for the Cake, Merge, OnGame, Party Poker and iPoker […]